Willis J. Abbot

Capitolo 7

I capitulate VII he/she reads readings "Beginning of Navigation",
  I capitulate on page 233 lex "Beginnings of Navigation"



American Merchant Navi and Sailors




CHAPTER ME.

THE AMERICAN SHIP AND THE AMERICAN SAILOR--THE LEAD OF THE INGHILTERRA NEW ON IL
OCEAN--THE FIRST SHIP-BUILDING AMERICAN--AS THE SHIPYARDS
MULTIPLIED--ILLEGAL TIMES ON THE TALL SEAS--SHIP-BUILDING THE FORESTS
AND ON THE FARM--OF THE FIRST TYPES--THE COURSE OF MARITIME WORK--THE FIRST ONE
SCHOONER IS THE FIRST SHIP COMPLETELY EQUIPPED--THE JEALOUSY AND ANTAGONISM OF
THE INGHILTERRA--THE PLAGUE OF PRIVATEERING--CONGRESS ENCOURAGEMENT--THE GILDED ONE
DAYS OF OUR DEALER MARINE--FIGHTING AGAINST CAPTAINS AND DEALING
CAPTAINS--EARTH AMONG FRANCE IS THE INGHILTERRA--IT CHECKED FROM THE WARS--SEALING
IT IS WHALING--IN THE PACIFIC--AS BOYS YANKEE MONTARONO ON IL
QUARTER-BRIDGE--OF THE HISTORIES OF FIRST SAILORS--THE PACKETS IT IS THEM
ENTERPRISES.


When the twentieth century opened, the American sailor was almost extinct.
The nation that, in the his/her first and in struggle days, you/he/she had given to the world
a run of sailors as adventurous as the Scandinavian Vikings it had, of days of
its greatness and the prosperity turned away its eyes from the sea and they produced
to the other people the dominion of the depth. One living of past reading,
the newspapers, notebooks and record-books of the first days of the
Nineteenth century, you/he/she cannot understand just as an occupation that played
so great a part in the American life as of sea could be never permitted to
rebate. The favorite ambition of the American boy of ours national soon
it was it was to command a ship of cutter--but how many years you/he/she has been since then
that ambition entered the mind of young America! In those days the
people of all the young republics from Maryland founded toward their north
affairs very allied with maritime adventure. Without railroads, and
with only the most unfortunate excuses for place-roads, States is,
connected together from the sea;  and coastwises traffic soon it started to assume a